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Robert Crossley

Robert Crossley

Global Head of Digital and Industry Advisory Services, Franklin Templeton

Robert Crossley is Franklin Templeton’s Global Head of Digital and Industry Advisory Services, providing advisory consulting and thought leadership as part of Franklin Templeton’s Innovation arm, delivering actionable intelligence and insights on the future of the investment and wealth management industry for the firm and its clients.

Prior to Franklin Templeton, Robert was a Managing Director at Citi where he spent 17 years in a number of roles across strategy and rates and macro research. In the decade before Citi he worked in a variety of portfolio manager roles (proprietary trading, long only, and long/short) and started his career at Cargill working in corporate treasury and risk management.

He holds an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, England.

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